Arts & Entertainment Four Healthy Peregrine Falcon Chicks Have Hatched on a Ledge at San Jose City Hall There's some good news on the local raptor front, which we all could use after a rough few years for Bay Area peregrine falcons: Four chicks have hatched this spring in the nest box atop San Jose City Hall, and biologists from UC Santa Cruz have given them a clean bill of health.
SF News Censorship Alleged at Marin County Student Newspaper Related In Part to Epstein Files Story A high school newspaper in Larkspur has been at the center of a fiery debate about the First Amendment, after teachers and students say the paper has been pressured to censor itself by the school administration.
SF Politics Fiona Ma's Sex Scandal From Five Years Ago Has Of Course Come Up In the Race for Lieutenant Governor Former SF supervisor and assemblymember Fiona Ma, who has been the state's treasurer since 2019, is now running for lieutenant governor, and naturally a sexual harassment lawsuit against her has come up.
SF News SFist Is Seeking a Contributing Editor SFist has an opening for a motivated newshound with weekend availability, and a deep knowledge of the Bay Area.
SF News East Bay Family Sues PG&E, Contractors Over Home Explosion That Injured Six An Alameda County family is now suing over a dramatic gas-leak explosion last December that was caught on camera, injuring three people inside and destroying their rental home.
SF News Two Dozen Displaced In Tenderloin Apartment Building Fire A fire Tuesday night in San Francisco's Tenderloin damaged a six-story building and displaced 25 people, but thankfully no one was injured in the blaze.
SF News Humpday Headlines: San Franciscans Mostly Somewhat OK With Waymos Now The 76-year-old driver accused in a deadly Chinatown crash has pleaded not guilty; the chief of police in San Leandro has been charged in a hit-and-run; and a new poll finds San Franciscans mostly OK with self-driving cars, but it's a mixed bag.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outside Lands Food Lineup Includes Dishes From SF Icons Original Joe's, Perry's, and Balboa Cafe The all-important food and beverage lineup for Outside Lands 2026 has been released, and among the new offerings this year are some dishes from historic San Francisco restaurants who have never been part of the festival before.
SF Politics Some Democrats Float Strategy of Waiting Until Final Days to Vote In Primary For Governor, Focusing on Frontrunner Though it's not likely, Democrats in California run the risk of splitting their votes in the June primary and getting locked out of the November election, so some are arguing for being strategic with your vote.
SF News New San Francisco Homeless Census Shows Slight Drop, But Methodology Also Changed The preliminary results of this year's point-in-time homeless count, which was conducted in San Francisco in late January, are out and Mayor Daniel Lurie is touting the 4% overall drop in homelessness since 2024.
SF News Three Men From Tennessee Indicted In Strong-arm Crypto Robbery Spree Across Bay Area and LA We still don't know who the brains are behind the operation, but three young men from Tennessee were indicted by a federal grand jury and may lead investigators to the co-conspirator or co-conspirators who guided them to holders of large sums of crypto in California.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: FIFA Marks 30 Days Until World Cup Kickoff There are flag-raising ceremonies around the Bay today to mark 30 days until the World Cup; a dog was sickened by rat poison left in a Santa Clara park; and inflation just jumped the most since May 2023.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SoCal Mayor to Plead Guilty to Being a Chinese Agent Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, CA, has admitted to working as an agent of the Chinese government; two men have been charged over an Oakland sideshow last fall; and there was a stabbing at the Redwood City Safeway self-checkout area.
SF Politics Two Former Aides Suggest Quid Pro Quo In Breed's Appointment of Stephen Sherrill to Board of Supervisors Clearly because they want to damage Stephen Sherrill's reelection prospects, two former aides of Mayor London Breed are confirming what many already suspected about her appointment of Sherrill to the Board of Supervisors a year and a half ago.
SF News Rollover Crash Near SF General Leaves Two Injured, Disrupts Muni Service A rollover crash on Potrero Hill that may have only involved one vehicle led to an emergency alert, a fallen tree in the roadway, and disrupted Muni service Monday near Zuckerberg SF General Hospital.
SF Politics Still Not Giving a Formal Endorsement, Pelosi Offers Praise For Connie Chan House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who is now mere months away from a well-deserved retirement, says she's been sitting back and trying to gauge the public's reaction to the candidates running for her seat.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Valkyries Win Home Opener Against Mercury 95-79, Salaün Shines The Golden State Valkyries had a great opening weekend for the 2026 season, beating the Seattle Storm in their first regular season game, and beating the Phoenix Mercury in the home opener Sunday.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Mayor Lurie Continues to Have High Approval Rating Mayor Daniel Lurie continues to enjoy a high overall approval rating in a new poll; authorities in Santa Clara continue to monitor the hantavirus cruise ship passenger; and gray whales seem to be hanging out longer in the Bay.
SF News Brace Yourselves For What Could Be a Really Nutty El Niño Winter Terms like "off the charts" and "record breaking" are being used to describe the coming "super" El Niño that is taking shape in the Pacific.
SF News Sunday Links: Lyft Passenger Killed After Running on North Bay Freeway A Lyft passenger was killed while running on the shoulder of I-80 in Vallejo; police in Santa Clara found a body inside a burned out home following a shooting; and Dave Coulier shares a health update.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Ciao, Del Popolo Polenta debuts in Alamo Square, Del Popolo slings its final (non-frozen) pies, and the East Bay's takeout staple Grégoire opens in the Inner Sunset, all in This Week In Food.
Arts & Entertainment Ray of Light Theatre Breathes New Life Into Longtime Jackson Square Performance Space Ray of Light Theatre, the local musical-obsessed theater group that has performed mostly at the Victoria Theater in the Mission District for much of its 25 years of existence, has a new home downtown.
SF News Evidence of Human Remains, But No Body, Found In Yard During Search Related to Kristin Smart Case Investigators continue to search the San Luis Obispo County home and backyard of Susan Flores, the mother of Paul Flores, who was convicted of killing fellow Cal Poly student Kristin Smart in 1996. And some gruesome evidence has been found.
SF News 19th Avenue Is Once Again Closed For Roadwork This Weekend Both the northbound and southbound lanes of 19th Avenue (Highway 1) in San Francisco are closed this weekend as Caltrans continues repaving the roadway.
SF News Oakland Police Shoot Suspect Who Dragged Officer With His Car A man was shot early Friday by Oakland police officers in a strange incident that began with a traffic stop, and left both officers and the suspect injured.
